Merlin - Richard Strauss, mode d'emploi (in french)

Richard Strauss, manual by Christian Merlin (Collection Avant-Scène Opéra)

Titles :

Practice benchmarks

• Biographical
• Instead of Strauss in the history of music
• A complex personality

Studies

• Strauss and his librettists
• Strauss aen orkest
• Strauss Lieder
• Strauss and politics

Focus on works

• Guntram
• Feuersnot
• Salomé
• Elektra
• The knight of the Rose
• Ariane in Naxos
• The woman without shade
• Intermezzo
• Egyptian Helen
• Arabella
• The silent woman
• Day of peace
• Daphné
• Capriccio
• The love of Danae

Look and listen

• To sing Strauss
• 40 large Straussian voice
• Leading Strauss
• 20 great conductors Straussian
• Staging Strauss
• 10 major productions Straussian

Practice benchmarks

• Discography
• Videography
• Bibliography
• Index of names and titles

Richard Strauss is perhaps the most paradoxical among the great artists of the modern era personality. Bourgeois or artist, or boorish man of culture, cold or sensual, megalomaniac to moderate, conservative or modern, it seems like an eel to escape all these classifications too convenient when attempting to store it in a drawer. Probably because it was all at once. Probably because few men illustrate this point saying that "appearances are deceiving" the image it conveys to his contemporaries seems constantly contradicted by his intimacy and his creation.

This book first opens many doors access Strauss operas, with a full presentation of the action and its musical translation, followed by a definition of psychological and vocal character profiles. Comprehensive and synthetic, it is for anyone curious about the Straussian universe, its poetic and political issues of his literary sources and the place of the composer in the history of music.

Enthusiasts and disk staging find here an overview of the great performers and conductors Straussians, and studies on the art of singing and directing Strauss.d employment, our collection is enriched with a third giant opera: Richard Strauss. A giant complex reputation.